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Editor’s Choice: WMS Budget – Room for an Implementation?

Logistics Viewpoints

Today’s article comes from Eric Mcpherson at Open Sky Group and looks at a WMS budget and preparing for implementation. Here are some tips for making your WMS Budget work (you can apply this thinking to an upgrade or other supply chain solution implementation too): List hardware costs – Examine what devices (voice picking, etc.),

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Imagine What 25% Labor Savings Could Do for Your Bottom Line

Logistics Viewpoints

A warehouse labor management (LMS) system can change all that because it feeds off your WMS information – number of picking transactions, UPCs, machine speeds, dimensional inputs, number of items and cases, size and weight of cases, case grab factors, racking heights and configurations, machine speeds and travel paths, etc.

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Enhanced Processes for Spanish 3PL Operator

Logistics Business Magazine

Third-party logistics operator Factor 5 recently commissioned a goods-to-person solution featuring an AutoStore automated storage and picking system provided by intelligent automation solution provider Dematic. The project got underway in March 2022 and was completed in just under 12 months. Our goal has been twofold with this project.

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AI’s Transformative Role in Warehousing

Logistics Business Magazine

Edward Napier-Fenning, Sales & Marketing Director of leading supply chain software company Balloon , explores five key areas that can boost performance – including route planning, picking, labour management reporting and data entry. Quite suddenly, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere.

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Driving Rigor into Your Inventory Control Practices Helps You Win the Race

Logistics Viewpoints

Having inventory in the best location for picking will enable an efficient service model. Slotting logic will keep required levels of stock in the picking locations, limiting the need to stop picking to replenish inventory needed to complete the orders. It also decreases the opportunity for errors with that reduced handling.

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Briggs enhances safety at Port of Liverpool

Logistics Business Magazine

As part of the ongoing partnership between Briggs Equipment and Peel Ports Group (PPG), a new JCB machine equipped with innovative safety technology and telemetry has recently been delivered to the Port of Liverpool. The new truck is having an immediate impact with positive feedback from operators and management teams alike.

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How to Select the Right KPIs for Supply Chain Benchmarking

Logistics Bureau

An example of this might be the implementation of a warehouse productivity KPI that encourages the workforce to pick more orders per hour. Unfortunately, as picking speed increases, so too does the likelihood of picking errors, which would work against any service-oriented KPI such as perfect order, picking accuracy, or delivery in full.